Third Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Churchill College, University of Cambridge (UK), 8-10 July 2013.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. David
Abulafia (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Carole Hillenbrand (University of
Edinburgh)
* Call for Papers *
Abstract deadline: 1st December
2012
The Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
is proud to announce our forthcoming third biennial conference, with the theme
of ‘Trade, Travel and Transmission’. This three-day inter-disciplinary
conference will bring scholars together to explore the interaction of the
various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of the medieval Mediterranean,
a region which had been commonly represented as divided by significant
religious and cultural differences. The objective of the conference is to
highlight the extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of
conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people, goods and
ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring cultures and societies. We invite
proposals for 20-minute papers in the fields of archaeology, art and
architecture, codicology, ethnography, history (including the histories of
science, medicine and cartography), languages, literature, music, philosophy
and religion. Submission on the following topics would be particularly welcome:
- Activities of missionary orders
- Artistic contacts and exchanges
- Byzantine and Muslim navies
- Captives and slaves
- Cargoes, galleys and warships
- Costume and vestments
- Diplomacy
- Judaism and Jewish Mediterranean History
- Literary contacts and exchanges
- Material Culture
- Minority Populations in the Christian and Islamic Worlds.
- Mirrors for Princes
- Music, sacred and secular
- Port towns/city states
- Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims.
- Religious practices: saints, cults and heretics
- Scientific exchange, including astronomy, medicine and mathematics
- Seafaring, seamanship and shipbuilding
- Sufis & Sufi Orders in North Africa and the Levant
- Sultans, kings and other rulers
- Trade and Pilgrimage
- Travel writing
- Warfare: mercenaries and crusaders
Please send abstracts of no longer than 250
words, together with a short CV (max. 2 sides of A4) to Dr Rebecca Bridgman (University
of Cambridge,
Vice-President of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean) by
e-mail.
Source: COMSt
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